Dining, Dining Out/Cultural Desk

EXPECT $240 rack of veal, $220 shoulder of pork and a $200 whole king salmon for four to eight people, to be carved within view of the table, in a flourish of high ceremony from the Old World. The proposed menu lists nearly 20 antipasti. It has more than a dozen pasta dishes, one with a jalapeÃ±o pesto, another with a tripe ragÃ¹, another with partridge.

December 7, 2005artsNews

Dining In, Dining Out/Style Desk

IT was 11:30 in the morning, and Lidia Bastianich's camera-ready blue-and-white-tile kitchen was piled high with dishes in various stages of preparation, from completed to just a pile of raw ingredients. Their final destination was the kitchen dining table, set for a typical Sunday afternoon multigenerational family meal, with 13 to dinner. Well, maybe not completely typical. After all, it was Tuesday. And Ms. Bastianich was eager to show off her new cookbook to its best advantage. ''It is a normal family meal,'' Ms. Bastianich said, but then allowed that a simple soup likely would have taken the place of the unusual layered polenta dish, a mixture of yellow and buckwheat polenta with savoy cabbage, bacon and mushrooms. After all, there were eight other dishes, including turkey cutlets.

House & Home/Style Desk

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, the celebrated chef who is a co-owner of five restaurants and the star of her second public television series, ''Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen,'' still makes lunch for her family every Saturday and Sunday. The fact that this was Wednesday didn't stop her; the chance to cook from her latest book, ''Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen'' (Alfred A. Knopf), was too hard to resist.

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THE spring obsession in Istria is wild asparagus. Throughout the peninsula, which juts into the Adriatic across from Venice -- just a ferry ride away -- people are walking through open fields and along roadsides, carrying the stout sticks they use to...

Lidia: Italy at Home is Lidia Bastianich's new magazine, which has just the right combination of authority and homey warmth, Ms. Bastianich's trademarks on television and in her books. The focus of the magazine is beautifully photographed Italian...